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Radio Production Technical

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1. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Low frequency sound speaker
Decibels (dB).
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

2. What is Recording?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

3. What are the levels of tones
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume

4. What is Destructive Recording?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Federal Communications Commission
Decibels (dB).
Recording that overwrites the previous recording

5. What is sound measured in?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Decibels (dB).
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo

6. What is Routing?
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Sending the sound where you want it to go

7. What does FCC stand for
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Federal Communications Commission
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations

8. What is Infrasonic?
Below 20Hz
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
From the peak to the trough

9. What is Limiting?
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Muting sounds above peak

10. What is a transducer?
Above 20kHz
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Federal Communications Commission

11. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired

12. What is Compression?
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

13. What is Amplification?
Making the sounds more usable.
Low frequency sound speaker
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations

14. What are the four processes involved in digital recording?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)

15. What is Expansion?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations

16. What is our hearing range?
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

17. What is a Shock Mount for?
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Muting sounds above peak
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

18. What is ultrasonic?
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Above 20kHz
Low frequency sound speaker
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough

19. When a two speakers are housed in the same box - what is the arrangement?
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
High frequency sound speaker
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

20. What is Routing?
From the peak to the trough
Sending the sound where you want it to go
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

21. What is sound measured in?
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
Decibels (dB).
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.

22. What is a Tweeter?
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
High frequency sound speaker
Cycles per second

23. Why should you not listen to anything for a while between editing sessions?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Federal Communications Commission
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)

24. How does a Condenser Mic work?
Below 20Hz
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

25. How does a Condenser Mic work?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Federal Communications Commission
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air

26. What is the Midrange?
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Middle frequency sound speaker
Above 20kHz
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy

27. What is the Midrange?
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Middle frequency sound speaker
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

28. What is a Woofer?
Low frequency sound speaker
Cycles per second
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
High frequency sound speaker

29. What is frequency?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume

30. What is Editing?
Low frequency sound speaker
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A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

31. What is Sibilance?
In order to get a new perspective on the project
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
S sounds - sounds that hiss

32. What is Mastering?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
From the peak to the trough
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

33. What is ultrasonic?
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Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Above 20kHz
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo

34. What is Gating?
Muting sounds above peak
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

35. Why should you not listen to anything for a while between editing sessions?
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired

36. What is Hertz (Hz)?
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Low frequency sound speaker
Cycles per second
Decibels (dB).

37. What is Amplitude?
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
From the peak to the trough
Middle frequency sound speaker

38. What is Editing?
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Decibels (dB).
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

39. How does a Dynamic Mic work?
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met

40. What is Mastering?
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Federal Communications Commission
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Making the sounds more usable.

41. What is a Woofer?
Low frequency sound speaker
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air

42. What is Expansion?
Low frequency sound speaker
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Federal Communications Commission

43. What is Nondestructive Recording?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Below 20Hz
Business
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

44. C of O's Station ID
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Decibels (dB).

45. When a two speakers are housed in the same box - what is the arrangement?
Above 20kHz
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
In order to get a new perspective on the project
In order to get a new perspective on the project

46. What is frequency?
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Above 20kHz
Decibels (dB).
From the peak to the trough

47. What are Plosives?
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
High frequency sound speaker
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

48. What is Hertz (Hz)?
Making the sounds more usable.
Cycles per second
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

49. What is Sonic Panorama?
Business
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

50. A radio station is first and foremost a ________
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Business
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air